Switch 4 is a free upgrade for Switch v2 and v3 customers who have Premium Support. For customers without Premium Support, Switch 4 is a paid upgrade.

Improved PerformanceTelestream continues to refine and improve our playback and indexing performance within Switch. Particular attention was given to the performance of caption decoding and making sure we are making efficient use of file system reads and writes, as well as only decoding the data that is actually needed.

Growing File SupportThe ability to open files and play them back while they are still being written to disk enables live capture workflows that include previewing the quality of live video captures, extracting portions of the already written video for use in social media promotion of live productions, and the ability to confirm the media encoding of content coming from live capture systems.

OP-47/OP-42 Teletext Captions Plus ProSwitch is now capable of decoding and displaying OP-47 and OP-42 Teletext captions. This support maintains format parity with Telestream’s caption authoring tools MacCaption and CaptionMaker, and will enable users to play back their captions and view them to confirm positioning, styling, and sync accuracy without the need for expensive hardware decoders.

Team Collaboration Plus ProNew collaboration feature allows users to create and view flags on the timeline that contain comments, errors, or feedback. Share these flags between team members using a sidecar flags file to allow collaboration to occur without making any changes to the video. Simple to understand formatting of the flags document allows for automation systems to be able to create reports that can be reviewed and visualized on the timeline!.

Play It

Plays any file format professionals care aboutTrust Switch for frame-accurate playback of all your professional media files, including embedded captions and subtitles.

Multi-format playback support includes MXF, IMF, GXF, MPEG-2 Program Streams and Transport Streams, and formats such as MOV, MP4, WMV, and more!

Switch can also play HEVC and 4K files, DNxHD, and JPEG2000 (requires Switch Plus or Pro).

All the playback controls you expectSwitch has all the playback control features you’d expect in a professional player such as JKL navigation, fast forward and rewind, slow motion, as well as single-frame forward and back.

“Jump To” allows you to jump to a specific timecode, frame or time in your video.

Full caption support Plus ProSwitch will play back embedded CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT captions) and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle files. Switch is the only software player with full support for CEA-708 caption decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support.

Switch will also decode captions from virtually all wrappers and formats, so you can verify captions within your MXF or Transport Stream file.

Enough information but not too muchSwitch displays all the relevant media information about your file in an intuitive, well organized interface. The inspector is deep enough to be meaningful, without giving users so much information that it becomes cumbersome.

Fix It

Make changes to your file and export Plus ProBy switching to edit mode, users can modify settings and export a new file. Switch lets you specify a new file format; a new video or audio codec; trim, scale or crop the video; add metadata (Pro only), and much more. Export to Apple ProRes*, H264, MPEG-2 Video, MP4, MPEG-2 program streams and transport streams.

*Requires Switch Pro on Windows

Rewrap files Plus ProSwitch includes the ability to pass-through audio and video on export, or omit the video and export as an audio only file.

Powerful audio editing Plus ProIn the audio tab, you can split or join different audio tracks, rearrange audio tracks; change speaker assignments, then change the audio format and sample rate. Switch also supports downmixing: take a file with eight channels and mix it down to stereo.

Deliver ItMore Publishing Options: Plus ProExport your video directly to Vimeo, YouTube, or Facebook from within Switch. Select export, choose your destination, and Switch will publish directly to your destination and save a local copy on your computer. Switch will create the appropriate files for your destination, taking the guesswork out of encoding and submitting content.

*Note: Minimum specifications are the required hardware for playback of standard definition content. Playback of demanding content such as 4K, HEVC, and high frame rate video may require more powerful hardware.

PLAYER FORMAT SUPPORT

Containers:

AAC

AC31

AIFF

ASF1

AVC (AVC Elementary Stream)

AVI (OpenDML)

DV

GXF

HEVC2,3 (HEVC Elementary Stream)

IMF4

LXF

M1V (MPEG-1 Video Elementary Stream)

M2V (MPEG-2 Video Elementary Stream)

MOV

MP3 (MPEG Layer 1, 2, 3 Audio Elementary Stream)

MP4 (ISO Base Media Format)

MPG (MPEG-1 System Stream)

MPS (MPEG-2 Program Stream)

MTS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)

MXF (AS-115 with UK DPP metadata)

MXF (OP-1a; AS-02, AS-035, AS-115)

MXF (OP-1a Proxy)

MXF (OP-1b)

MXF (OP-Atom)

SCC6

WAV

Video Codecs (decode only)

Apple QuickTime Animation RLE7

Apple ProRes

DNxHD4

DNxHR4

DV 25

DVCPro 25

DVCPro 50

DVCPro 100

DVCPro HD

H.263

H.264

H.2651

JPEG

JPEG20004

MPEG-1

MPEG-22

MPEG-4

Uncompressed YUV

WMV8

Audio Codecs (decode only)

AAC

AC31

G.711 aLaw

G.711 uLaw

G.726

Microsoft ADPCM

MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2, 3

PCM

WMA1

Captions:

Extraction and playback: CEA-608, CEA-708

DVB files

SCC6 files

SRT files

STL files

TTML/iTT/SMPTE-TT files

WebVTT (HTML5) files

ENCODE FORMAT SUPPORT8

Containers

MOV

MPEG-2 TS/PS

MPEG-4

MXF (OP-1a, OP-Atom)

Video Codecs

Apple ProRes9

MPEG-2 Video

x264

Audio Codecs

AAC

MPEG Layer 2

PCM

1 Not supported in Switch Player.2 Not supported in Switch Player for Windows. 3 HEVC support of 8-bit 4:2:0 profiles in Elementary Streams, MPEG-2 Transport Stream or MP4 files.4 Not supported in Switch Player and Switch Plus. 5 Advanced inspection of application-specific metadata included in Switch Pro. 6 Currently supports export of .scc files as part of an iTunes asset-only package.7 Currently supports 24-bit and 32-bit only.8 WMV playback available in Switch Plus and Pro, and available in Switch Player for Mac with Flip4Mac installed.9 Switch export is available for Plus and Pro.10 ProRes export on Windows is ProRes HQ 4:2:2 for iTunes only.

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